Thanks for looking into this! And sorry about the delay. Covid had me down for like 2 weeks.
What you are saying makes a lot of sense and would explain why this issue isn’t being widely reported. I had an issue with my last cart where sibilance was terrible on a particular record but no one else seemed to have the same issue, until I finally found another person who did and sure enough they had the same cart as I did. I haven’t run into any other issues with my newer cart but I can believe that is is the cause in one way or another.
The clicking issue on the first track of side d is only present on what I assume was a second pressing since Amazon was out of stock for months and then all of the sudden it was back and all of the copies I got had the issue. The two copies I received right when the record was released do not have that particular issue. but the distortion issue has been present on every copy. As it turns out the best copy which I ended up keeping, was the second copy I ordered from that initial batch when it just came out. Unfortunately i ordered a bunch more due to the distortion issue. Luckily all through Amazon so returning them was easy.
Anyway, I am finally content with the copy I have and I can put all of this behind me. Thanks again for your efforts and advice!
And @MikeH was asking if I definitely had the KG pressing which was a good question and the answer is yes KG all the way. Glad I didn’t have to deal with that element on top of the rest!
